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Indonesian president signs regulation banning Hizbut Tahrir
 [Jakarta Post] President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has signed a regulation to ban Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), an Islamic organization seeking to establish a global Islamic caliphate.Presidential spokesperson Johan Budi said that Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Wiranto would announce the decision on Wednesday. Chairman of the country's largest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama Said Aqil Siraj, who met Jokowi on Tuesday, also confirmed Jokowi's decision to disband HTI, adding that the announcement would be made on Thursday, not Wednesday. Earlier in March, the office of Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs announced that the government would ban HTI from operating in the country on the grounds that its vision of establishing a caliphate contradicted the value of Pancasila, which values diversity and pluralism. The decision to ban HTI came amidst worsening sectarianism during the course of the Jakarta gubernatorial election which saw Christian of Chinese descent Basuki Tjahaja "Ahok' Purnama facing off against former culture and education minister Anies Baswedan. If the HTI is eventually dissolved, it would be the first Islamic organization to be banned in the period following the downfall of the New Order authoritarian regime in 1998. During the three decades of that regime, president Soeharto banned numerous Islamic organizations whose activities and ideas deemed to be threats to the country's founding ideology Pancasila. Posted by: ryuge 2017-07-13 |
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